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It was interesting that the inventor of the device himself expressed some real qualms about it and the fact that it was needed at all, which I thought was very open of him.
Is the cabinet secretary aware of the concerns that police and staff organisations have expressed about the costs that the new single police force will have to bear, which are estimated to include £25 million-plus in VAT and £80 million in redundancy costs?
Do members agree to write to the minister expressing our concern that the matter was brought to his attention and that although, according to the report, discussions were under way to prevent its happening again, it happened again anyway?
It is fair to say that we very much share the concerns that have been expressed. Yesterday the Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment and I met the chairman and chief executive of CalMac.
Once we have reported or not reported issues, we do not have to express an opinion about whether the situation is satisfactory, so we need not divide.I take Chic Brodie’s point.
The developer put forward the view that he was ensuring that the site for the proposal was small enough for the decision to be made at the local level.
They are around one table, because the approach that we have taken with community sport hubs is not about one site, one venue or one school. It is actually community planning for sport.